West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New Edition |
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الصفحة 15
... lay in five or six gallons of rum more than your sea - stock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to distribute occasionally to the sailors ; it is the only way to gain their affeclions ; but observe , whenever you wish ...
... lay in five or six gallons of rum more than your sea - stock for that day , and to take about ten gallons more to distribute occasionally to the sailors ; it is the only way to gain their affeclions ; but observe , whenever you wish ...
الصفحة 38
... and the whole county of Cornwall , were almoft destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rose about thirty feet high in some places , this I was convinced of after the food abated , by observing part of a negro huc and other ...
... and the whole county of Cornwall , were almoft destroyed by an hurricane and heavy rains , Mina rose about thirty feet high in some places , this I was convinced of after the food abated , by observing part of a negro huc and other ...
الصفحة 45
... or by cutting some of them with a sharp knife , and observing the grain : if it appears soft and moist , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white parcicles appear , you may be sure that the cane is ripe ...
... or by cutting some of them with a sharp knife , and observing the grain : if it appears soft and moist , like a potatoe or turnip , it is too green : but if dry , and white parcicles appear , you may be sure that the cane is ripe ...
الصفحة 49
ing up to the third copper , and the grand copper filled again ; in the fourth copper , called a tach , the liquor is boiled into a thick fyrrup , and by turnthe ladle , and observing the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers ...
ing up to the third copper , and the grand copper filled again ; in the fourth copper , called a tach , the liquor is boiled into a thick fyrrup , and by turnthe ladle , and observing the white grain on the bottom thereof , the boilers ...
الصفحة 50
... observe the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own instruction , pay strict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to dress them when maimed , to cure them when fick , and to pamper and keep them ...
... observe the nature of different foils , line the ground , keep a journal for his own instruction , pay strict attention to the cattle and mules , learn to dress them when maimed , to cure them when fick , and to pamper and keep them ...
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